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Baseball Blogs Weigh In: Gillies, d’Arnaud, Giants

By Mike Axisa | September 9, 2011 at 12:05pm CDT

On this date in 2007, the Brewers became the third team in history to begin a game by hitting back-to-back-to-back home runs. Rickie Weeks, J.J. Hardy, and Ryan Braun all did their damage against Phil Dumatrait of the Reds, who gave up five hits and four runs before leaving the game in the top of the first without retiring a batter.

Here is the best the baseball blogosphere had to offer over the last week, as the 2011 season begins to wind down…

  • In a post at Brotherly Glove, Phillies prospect Tyson Gillies wrote about his long road back from injury.
  • MLB Reports interviewed Casey Bond, a former Giants minor leaguer turned actor. Bond plays Chad Bradford in the upcoming Moneyball movie.
  • At Home Plate talked to Joey Gathright about what he learned from Jose Canseco in independent ball before hooking on with the Red Sox.
  • Phoul Ballz spoke with Blue Jays prospect Travis d'Arnaud.
  • The Nats Blog compared Stephen Strasburg's return to the comebacks of other pitchers who came back from Tommy John surgery.
  • Bay City Ball says the Giants should play for 2012 this month.
  • Redleg Nation agrees with Reds pitching coach Bryan Price when he says that Aroldis Chapman should start.
  • Infield Chatter broke down the Red Sox's pitching problems.
  • BoSox Injection calls Tim Wakefield a liability.
  • Rant Sports Indians calls the Victor Martinez trade a huge win for the Indians.
  • Rising Apple takes a closer look at the players the Mets got in exchange for Francisco Rodriguez.
  • Disciples of Uecker muses about the Brewers' infield defense.
  • Chicago Now says the Cubs should look at John Coppolella, the Braves president of baseball administration, to be their next GM.

If you have a suggestion for this feature, Mike can be reached here. Only one email per week, please.

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  1. ESmolin

    11 years ago

    Being Travis d’Arnaud’s first professional baseball roommate; I can say that his success couldn’t have happened to a better kid.  Congrats Travis.

    Reply
    • Lunchbox45

      11 years ago

      A lot of Jay fans are routing for him… but send him a text, let him know its not cool to admit that his favorite show is The Hills.

      Reply
      • ESmolin

        11 years ago

        Believe me, I didn’t let him live it down.  I was 22, just graduated college, and I had to listen to him play John Mayer and watch The Hills.  Great kid though, good head on his shoulders.

        Reply
        • chico65

          11 years ago

          After that Mayer and The Hills talk, I wasn’t sure where you were going with that head comment

        • ESmolin

          11 years ago

          Minus his entertainment tastes; a good head on his shoulders.  Figured I’d just clear that up.

  2. Coollet

    11 years ago

    Future looks bright for BlueJays in the catcher position, i look forward to seeing a rotation between Travis and JP.

    Reply
    • ARodinyourPujols

      11 years ago

      A rotation between those 2 would be terrible. I think that when Travis comes up the Jays should give JP an opportunity to be a full time DH. If he can cut his strikeouts down and actually take a walk once in a while, I think he can become a very good DH. 

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      • Lunchbox45

        11 years ago

        why exactly would that rotation be terrible?? They compliment eachother quite well..

        but I’m of the opinion that JP can one day be moved, young cheap controllable sluggers  that can catch are a rarity now a days, he would fetch a lot

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        • ARodinyourPujols

          11 years ago

          I don’t mean it in a production point of view but you have to make one of play everyday at catcher, instead of a rotation where they only play 70 games behind the plate. With young guys like that you have to give them constant playing time, especially behind the plate. 

        • Lunchbox45

          11 years ago

           Theoretically JP could could get 250 AB’s at DH and 250 at catcher.

  3. MaineSox

    11 years ago

    Okay Joey, now what did you really learn from Canseco?

    Reply
    • 0bsessions

      11 years ago

      Only the juiciest of gossip.

      Reply
      • 0bsessions

        11 years ago

        I’ll also have you know that that pun was completely unintentional. Canseco just seems like the MLB equivelant of that one lady in the office who blabs about everything going on.

        Reply
      • chico65

        11 years ago

        You’ve gat that right

        Reply
  4. John Arguello

    11 years ago

    Just a couple of quick notes on that Cubs article..

    That article on Coppolella is actually from my blog Cubs Den which is a part of Chicago Now.      And Coppolella’s title is Director of Baseball Administration.

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